Building & Maintaining. World Language Collections

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1 Building & Maintaining World Language Collections

2 Archana Chiplunkar, Livingston Public Library Hongmei Liu, Livingston Public Library Linda Tripp, Somerset County Library System 2

3 The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. Ludwig Wittgenstein 3

4 WL Collection Development/Management Demographics & Patron Needs Budget/Vendors Selection Shelving/Promotion Cataloging Deselection 4

5 Statistical Atlas.com Census data made visual 5

6 Language Spoken at Home % of the total population in NJ living in households in which a given language is spoken at home. 6 Source: Statistical Atlas 6

7 Languages in New Jersey. Source: Statistical Atlas (from 2010 US Census data) 7

8 By County Subdivision Languages in New Jersey. Source: Statistical Atlas (from 2010 US Census data) 8

9 Demographics matter... 9

10 ...but know your patrons 10

11 Livingston Public Library 18 World Languages an e r o K M Hidi nese Chi hi t a r a R an ussi ese nam t e i V rew b e H ati r a j Gu ese n a Jap Span ish Hung arian Latin Yidd Fren ch ish Italia Germ n an Swe dish Danish 11

12 Livingston PL Chinese Languages > 4,500 books > 1,000 DVDs, CDs & Books on CDs 29 magazines 12

13 29 Chinese Magazines 13

14 Planning the Budget Going beyond demographics Foreign visitors Look at Circulation 14

15 Planning the Budget Languages with Non-Latin characters = larger circulation Prevalence of English in native country 15

16 Where to Purchase Foreign vendors may have too many items US vendors sort and eliminate books 16

17 Where to Purchase Vendors give you a limited book list More options going to bookstores 17

18 Vendors for Chinese - New York World Journal Bookstore Xinhua Bookstore Eastern Culture Bookstore 世界书局 新华书店 东方文化事业公司 Flushing, NY Flushing, NY New York, NY 18

19 Vendors for Chinese - New Jersey Timesbook, Inc. Science Press USA, Inc. 时代图书 中国科技出版集团, 美国 Linden, NJ Princeton Junction, NJ 19

20 Vendors - Other Languages Russian: Russian Publishing House Ltd. French: Renaud-Bray/collectivites Forest Hills, NY Montréal (Québec) 20

21 Vendors - Other Languages Spanish: The Bilingual Publications Company Korean: Bandibooks New York, NY Flushing, NY 21

22 Selection Best sellers in foreign countries may not align with American interests 22

23 Selection Focus Foreign born seniors & middle aged Balanced collection Ask vendors for a selection 23

24 Cataloging OCLC SkyRiver 24

25 UnCataloging Use WorldCat.org as reference for Call# Book title/author in notes 25

26 Displaying WL Materials Shelf-end displays for popular titles Booklists for new titles 26

27 Promoting WL Materials Community events Newcomers Picnic Day Diversity Day Chinese New Year Celebration National Night Out 27

28 Promoting WL Materials 28

29 Promoting WL Materials WeChat Facebook Library newsletter & flyers New book list on library web 29

30 Livingston Indian Language Collection: Gujarati & Hindi Magazines Bollywood DVDs Books Special Media 30

31 Magazines Vendors: Butala; EBSCO Add/Drop: 1 x per year Budget: $ Shelved together in Magazine area 31

32 Gujarati Magazines Stree, Chitralekha, Mumbai Samachar (newspaper) 3232

33 Hindi magazines Sarita Grihashobha Manohar Kahaniyaan 33

34 Bollywood DVDs Local Supplier: Movie Time Video Bimonthly selection/ordering No set budget 34

35 Bollywood DVDs Cataloged in BCCLS Shelved separately Labeled Bollywood 35

36 Books Vendor: Multicultural Books and Videos 2-3 lists for selection 36

37 Books Budget: $ Uncataloged (not in BCCLS) Listed on library website Shelved in WL area 37

38 Special Media Music CDs TV series Gujarati/Marathi DVDs 38

39 Special Media Select/order from Movie Time lists Budget: $200 39

40 Special Media Cataloged in BCCLS & listed on library website Shelved in WL area 40

41 Publicity and promotion Displays Book lists on website 41

42 Publicity and promotion Indian Social & Cultural Association Flyers distributed at multicultural events 42

43 Challenges Shelving and space issues Low usage: patrons are proficient in English 43

44 Somerset County Library System Books DVDs Music Magazines Newspapers 44

45 SCLSNJ: 21 World Languages Chinese, Spanish, Hindi, Russian, Gujarati, French, Tamil, German, Korean, Bengali, Italian, Urdu, Japanese, Polish, Arabic,Telugu, etc. 45

46 Biggest Challenges Vendors Cataloging Collection Maintenance 46

47 Books - Adult Vendors Multicultural Books & Video Baker & Taylor Local stores 47

48 Selection 1-2% of materials budget Choose from vendor-provided selection lists Set budget amount and have vendor select titles 48

49 Selection Order parameters: MARC records required Duplicate Check Backorder if Not in Stock 49

50 Selection Considerations Patron requests Donations Quality ebooks? 50

51 Vendor Issues Quality of websites varies widely Out of stock items Desired format N/A Online vs. local 51

52 Cataloging MARC records Uncataloged Staff doesn t speak the language, now what? 52

53 Shelving Dedicated World Language area Shelved by language 53

54 Shelving Labels Media with print or separate 54

55 Books - Children Spanish, Chinese, Gujarati, Hindi, Urdu 6-7 % of Juvenile materials budget 55

56 56

57 Vendors for Children s WL Multicultural Books & Videos Baker & Taylor Lectorum Capstone Publishing Rosen/PowerKidsPress 57

58 58

59 Magazines/Newpapers Vendor: WT Cox Add/Drop: 1 x per year Budget: Varies ($10,000) Shelved together in Periodicals 59

60 SCLSNJ WL Magazines Chinese 9 Chinese National Geography; Crown; Family; Fiction Monthly, Heath; October; Reader; Reader s Digest; Sino Monthly New Jersey Spanish 7 Cocina Facil; Cosmopolitan de Mexico, Futbol Total; GQ Espana; Men s Health Mexico; National Geographic en Espanol; People en Espanol Russian 1 Novyi Mir 60

61 SCLSNJ WL Magazines Gujarati 4 Chitralekha; Grih Shobha; Navneet Samerpan; Saras Salil Hindi 3 Grih Shobha; Kadambini; Sarita Marathi 1 Saras Salil WL Newspapers Chinese 1 Shih chieh jih pao = World Journal East Spanish El Diario/La Prensa 1 61

62 Promotion/Marketing School ESOL events Multicultural events 62

63 Collection Maintenance Size vs. Scope Staff doesn t speak the language 63

64 Adult WL Collections NJ Libraries, from Survey Respondents Top 5 Adult: Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Korean, Hindi 64

65 Juvenile WL Collections in NJ Libraries, from Survey Respondents Top 5 Juvenile: Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Russian, French 65

66 Survey Results More than half spend < 5% 66

67 Survey Results - Determining Languages 67

68 Survey Results 68

69 Archana Chiplunkar Tel: ext Hongmei Liu Tel: ext Linda Tripp Tel: ext

70 Credits Charts on slides 6-8 from Statistical Atlas.com Images Credits: Slide 2: By Linguist111 - Own work, Public Domain, Slides 14, 51 : "Money Money Money" (CC BY-NC 2.0) by Jeremy Brooks Slide 20: By Dr. Mitra basu (CC BY-SA 4.0) Slide 58: By Max Pixel Slide 70: Presentation template by SlidesCarnival Photographs by Unsplash Additional photos by Archana Chiplunkar, Honmei Liu, Linda Tripp 70

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